Bertrand Russell The Spirit Of Solitude

The Spirit Of Solitude, 1872-1921

By Ray Monk.The Free Press. $35.00. 720 pages.

Washington Times, 20 Oct. 1996, B7-8.

Ray Monk’s 1990 biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein was, by any measure, a milestone. A philosopher by training who happens to also have a great talent for story-telling, Monk was able to bridge the gap between the narrative of an extraordinary complex and contradictory life and the exposition of […]